Lucid (nee Atieva) to build luxury electric cars in Arizona factory

Stephen Edelstein Nov 30, 2016 Teaser for Lucid electric car Enlarge Photo Lucid Motors has become the latest startup automaker proposing to build electric cars in the U.S. The company—formerly known as Atieva—says it plans to break ground next year on a new factory in Casa Grande, Arizona. Lucid will begin production of its first electric car by 2018, it said in a statement, and expects to employ more than 2,000 people at the factory by 2022. DON'T MISS: Atieva now Lucid Motors; plans 300-mile, 900-hp electric car The ambitious timeline can't help but bring to mind another new automaker—Faraday Future. Faraday too said it plans to put an electric car into production within two years, and earlier this year it broke ground on its own factory in North Las Vegas, Nevada. While Faraday still apparently plans to unveil its first production model at CES in January, work on the f...